Chamber of Peers

The Chamber of Peers was the upper house of the French parliament from 1814 to 1848 under both the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy regimes. The Chamber of Peers consisted of 154 members who were appointed by the king, and there was no limit to how many people could serve in the chamber. After the July Revolution of 1830, chamber members became life peers, although the chamber was abolished after the French Revolution of 1848.